Yesterday some frozen goods arrived, packed in a foam container and chilled with dry ice. After dealing with everything else, I had some dry ice to play with.

I had never dealt with dry ice myself before, so I was a bit startled as it "screamed" when I picked up a chunk with some tongs that were still room temperature. I did the usual water and dry ice to make fog bit in the sink. And then thought about what else I might do with dry ice.

I didn't come up with anything terribly creative, but I did get some use and entertainment from it. I mostly filled a container with water and dropped the remaining chunks of dry ice into it. Lots of bubbling, lots of fog, and the entertainment of water ice forming near the dry ice until the gas buildup blew it off.

And when the dry ice had all sublimated, I had carbonated water. Rather lightly carbonated, as everything happened around atmospheric pressure. Commercial carbonation is done at higher pressure. The result was still noticeable and quite drinkable. I'm drinking the last of that water now and since it wasn't in a truly gas-tight container overnight, the carbonation is only barely noticeable now. If I hold the water in my mouth for a few seconds I can feel the tingling of the carbonation.

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LiveJournal still doesn't have something it ought to: a means to search for something within one's own entries. This would allow searches to include friends-only and private posts which the Google Blog Search cannot do. (Addendum: InsaneJournal also lacks this, alas.)

Instead, a crude work-around of tags was put into place a while ago. Alas, it was recently limited to 1000 tags per account without a counter to let you know how many you had. You either get to count them yourself, or hit the wall. I hit the wall. Okkay, so just delete a couple redundant tags to get under 1000 and add the new one, right? You'd think so. I've just deleted a bunch. And LJ says I'm still trying to exceed the limit by adding one. Huh? 1000 - 6 + 1 is not 1000+. Conclusion: Not only is LJ's tagging system poorly designed, the limiter is broken.

And no, it's not that I had over 1000 tags when the limit was put into place. I ran into the wall before and deleted a tag or two and added the one I wanted.

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